The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-14
SINE QUA NON.

TSSpODCeOc6 anu 1ulOTu6LlOu VI SA'
Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. says
"Our day has arrived and We can say
with candor and truth that We have
more inducement to offer to capita
than any city west of the Mississippi a
the present time. In fact, there Is NJ
point west of ST. Louis that enjoys oul
facilities for manufacturing; and fol
agriculture, climate, fruit and natura
attractions, Salt Lake Valley has nc
rivs! in the United States"
These things are all true. They are
not the roseate views and picturesque
imaginings of some journalistic Null
berry Sellers, the idle dreams of some
Utopian, or, rather, Utonian visionary.
Such statements are based upon incon
trovertible facts, and are as solid as the
hills, which are their sponsors. Why,
il may be asked, has eastern capital
been so insensible to the many natural
advantages Of Utah? The explain tion
may be found in combination of cir
eumstances, i. C., the east has hereto
fore found lucrative employment for
the bulk of its capital: the extraordin-
ary resources of Utah have not been
known abroad and have not been sufi-
GENTLY advertised; and last in point of
enumeration but easily first in point of
obstruction, haYe been the insensate
efforts of an incendiary press to create
the belief that Utah is powder house.
Assuming that certain practices of
he Mormoos are opposed to the vel
fare of society, and therefore deserve
statutory punishment-an assumption,
il seems, entertained by large major
ity of n-Mormons-What should
have been the course of the Gentle
press as dictated by reason and anal
ogy? The opposition should have been
directed alone to the objection
able features. Moderate, not speci-
ally oppressive, laws should have been
enacted to correct the alleged evil. and
time should have bean permitted
TO work out the desired result. Modera-
hon, truth and argument should have
been reflected in its columns. Success
in this life attends the application of
such methods. But buccaneer press
has cast them overheard. There has
been nothing in the whole scope of
Mormon belief or practice to merit its
praise. It's not only polygamy that
meets It's condemnation, but it sees fit
in pursuance of a suicidal policy, to
scoff at every thing Mormon, from
their God, who is the butt of its ridicule,
10 their ordinary worship, or to the
obsequies of an honored chief, which
occasions are treated with an irreYerent
jocularity that must disgust every
proper minded Gentle as it angers
every Latter-day Saint. 1t Is not
enough that those Mormons only shall
De prescribed, who have violated the
law; it labors strenuouSly to dis
franchise every Mormon, and to call
down upon q defenceless community. the
unjust wrath of a powerful govern
ment. The present laws which are
IN many respects fatally unjust
and unconstitutional, a fact, which
will yet be admitted by the opponents
OF Mormonism, are due chiefly to the
hue and cry of the Tribune and its iik.
1t seeks to bring that about in the
twinkling of an eye that requires years
to accomplish. 4 community is not
easily reformed. Extravaganza has re-
placed moderation; falsehood has
uslrped the throne OF truth; abuse,
vile, unmitigated Islander, is substituted
for argument.
The inevitable tendency of such
methods is to create dissension, to en-
gender hard feelings, and are certainly
calculated, and no doubt intended, to
provoke disturbances of the peace.
Experience teaches that the most
fruitful sources of riots have been the
incorporate utterances Of irresponsible
newspapers. II there has been no
Mormon uprising, 1t Is not because Of
the Salt Lake Tribune, but in spite of it.
But great as are these Instructions 10
the material growth of Utah, there is
vet one greater. We refer to the fire.
uaert asseverations Of the Tribune that
the safety of the Gentiles of Salt
Lake lies in the proximity of Fort
Douglas; that the maintenance of this
garrison is essential; and that It would
be wise policy for the government to
locate more troops in our midst for the
complete safety of the Gentle popula-
ton, and 10 oTerawe the turbulent Nor
mons.
These assertions are pre-eminently
false and pre-eminently opposed to the
object for which the Chamber Of Com
merce is csntending, !. G., the attraction
OF foreign capital and the development
of local resources. We have assurances
that the Chamber is convinced of the
fatuity of the Tri6uue's course. II
EeCisa'es TO condemn it. Yet, such